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Strategy guides, practical voir dire resources, product explainers and release notes for trial lawyers who want a data-backed edge. New articles are added regularly.
Voir Dire Strategy
Cause Challenge Preservation Checklist: What to Say, When to Say It, and What Must Be in the Record
A denied cause challenge is only preserved for appeal if counsel makes an express record of the ground, the ruling, the curative strike, and the final seated juror before the panel is sworn.
Voir Dire Strategy
Limited-Question Voir Dire: How to Maximize Information When the Judge Restricts Your Time
When a judge caps your voir dire questions or orders questionnaire-only selection, rank questions by legal consequence and convert each permitted question into a branching, record-safe inquiry.
Voir Dire Strategy
When 'I Can Be Fair' Is Not the End of Voir Dire: Testing Reassurance Against the Record
A juror's promise to "be fair" is not legal proof of impartiality. This post gives trial lawyers a case-specific follow-up matrix to test rehabilitation and preserve cause challenges.
Voir Dire Strategy
Juror Questionnaires Are Triage, Not Voir Dire: A Follow-Up Matrix
Juror questionnaires only work if counsel knows what to do after they come back. This post offers a four-category triage matrix for reconciling answers before oral voir dire.
Voir Dire Strategy
Bias Questions That Earn a Follow-Up: Converting Broad Attitudes Into Case-Specific Record Evidence
A juror saying I distrust corporations or I dont trust police is a lead, not a verdict on bias. Here is a follow-up architecture that turns vague attitudes into a challengeable record.
AI & Legal Technology
The Hidden Cost of Jury-Selection Software: A Total-Cost Worksheet
A $300-per-seat jury-selection tool can cost far more than a pricier competitor once training, data prep, and courtroom setup are counted. Here is a worksheet to find out.
Voir Dire Strategy
The Courtroom-Proof Voir Dire Chart: Printable Layouts for Panel Seating, Notes, and Strike Status
A jurisdiction-neutral jury seating chart with printable and digital layouts for tracking questionnaire flags, cause challenges, peremptories, and alternates.
AI & Legal Technology
Jury Selection Software Pricing: Comparing Per-Trial, Subscription, and Consultant Costs
A decision-ready comparison of flat-fee, subscription, and consultant jury selection pricing models, with a five-question framework to apply to any vendor quote before trial.
Voir Dire Strategy
A 'Yes' Is Not Always a Cause Challenge: Turning Bias Answers into a Record
A juror's admission of possible bias is evidence, not an automatic strike for cause; this piece shows attorneys how to build the record courts actually require.
AI & Legal Technology
AI Jury Selection Software Buyer's Guide: A Trial-Lawyer Test for Accuracy, Explainability, and Courtroom Use
A concrete pre-purchase protocol for testing AI jury selection software on a mock panel, auditing source trails, and confirming trial-speed performance before trusting it in a real case.
Voir Dire Strategy
Juror Questionnaire Questions That Earn Their Place: From Background Facts to Bias Follow-Ups
A practical framework for prioritizing which juror questionnaire questions deserve limited court-approved space and which belong in oral voir dire follow-up instead.
Voir Dire Strategy
The Voir Dire Chart That Survives a Fast-Moving Panel
A voir dire chart only protects your record if it tracks juror identity, answers, and rulings through every seat change and strike, not just seat numbers on a blank grid.
Voir Dire Strategy
Cause Challenges in Real Time: From a Juror's Answer to a Record-Safe Motion
A workable, in-the-moment sequence for turning a troubling juror answer into a legally sufficient cause challenge and an appeal-proof record.
AI & Legal Technology
AI Jury Selection Software Explained: What It Can—and Cannot—Tell Trial Lawyers
A practical breakdown of how AI jury selection software actually works—questionnaire import, profile building, theme scoring, flagging—and a buyer's checklist of red flags to watch for before purchase.
Voir Dire Strategy
Death Qualification in Non-Capital Cases: When Life-and-Death Attitudes Still Matter
Death qualification doctrine applies only to capital trials, but punishment attitudes still distort verdicts in felony-murder and attempted-murder cases—here is how to probe that bias without a Witherspoon claim.
Voir Dire Strategy
Rehabilitating a Juror After a Damaging Answer: A Step-by-Step Script
A line-by-line rehabilitation script criminal defense attorneys can use the moment a juror reveals bias, plus how to handle judge pushback and preserve the record for appeal.
Voir Dire Strategy
White-Collar Crime Juries: Selection Challenges for Federal Prosecutors
Federal prosecutors in white-collar cases face limited peremptory strikes, strict Batson constraints, and jurors whose views on corporations and finance often matter more than the charge itself.
Trial Strategy
The Reptile Theory in Voir Dire: Does It Still Work?
Reptile theory's brain science has been debunked, but its safety-framing tactics still shape juror attitudes in voir dire—here's what plaintiff, defense, and prosecution teams need to know.
Product Updates
Introducing Whisper Mode
Live, in-trial insight that knows your case and your panel, and waits until you look. Here is what Whisper Mode does, how we built it, and how to use it well.
Voir Dire Strategy
A Consistent Scoring Framework for Voir Dire
Instinct is a real skill. It works better when every juror is measured against the same written criteria. Here is a framework you can use with or without software.
AI & Legal Technology
What Does Jury Selection Help Cost in 2026?
From a jury consultant's hourly rate to per-seat software licenses and per-report research fees, here is what trial lawyers actually pay for help with voir dire, and how the models compare.
Batson & Legal Standards
Public-Records Research on Jurors: What Is Fair Game
Researching prospective jurors is a recognized part of trial practice. The rules on how you do it are specific and worth knowing cold. A practical overview for the trial bar.
Voir Dire Strategy
The Night-Before Voir Dire Checklist
Twelve things to have done before you walk into jury selection, whether your tools are a legal pad or a laptop.
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